Labour Market Institutions and Technological Employment

Chéron, Arnaud; Langot, François; Moreno‐Galbis, Eva

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0335.2009.00806.x

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“…da Vinci robot, ViRob) to aid surgical procedures and health care have proven that robots can do some jobs better than humans (Vince and Wilson, 2009). A growing concern related to the effect of the escalated use of computers, robotics and artificial intelligence on employment structure and technological unemployment, as well as their effects on the economy and society, was strongly emphasized in the literature (Chéron et al , 2011; Hughes, 2014; Marchant et al , 2014).…”

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Embracing the sobering reality of technological influences on jobs, employment and human resource development

Chuang

Graham

2018

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Purpose This paper aims to provide a sobering and unique view of technological unemployment and job changes by identifying endangered jobs and skills, as well as the essential up-skills critical to employees’ performance, which cannot be replaced by technology. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review, used because it is replicable, transparent, and scientific, was implemented to examine the current and future technological influences on employment, job outlook, work structure, and human resource development (HRD). Findings The study concludes that HRD professionals should promptly reexamine their social responsibility relative to the technological influence on workers by focusing developmental efforts on employees’ human skills while assisting workers’ transition to a skill-polarized workplace. HRD professionals should play a major role in facilitating employees’ coexistence with robots in the workplace. Originality/value While recognizing the valuable contributions of previous researchers with similar concerns, this comprehensive review provides an amalgamated and updated view, which reveals the escalating and combined challenges of a skill-polarized workplace, a tendency of technological unemployment for those positioned in middle-skill jobs, and an increased demand for employees with a higher level of human skills.

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Embracing the sobering reality of technological influences on jobs, employment and human resource development

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2018

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“…As in Cheron et al (2011), the economy includes two types of jobs: simple jobs, where workers do not receive training and so productivity is not modified when the technological frontier shifts; and complex jobs, where, following the shift in the technological frontier, workers receive on-the-job training allowing to index their productivity to the state of technology. We assume that finding a suitable complex job is more costly (it takes a longer time), so workers decide to search for a complex position if and only if their expected gains of occupying a complex job overcome the search cost they bear.…”

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Retirement intentions in the presence of technological change: theory and evidence from France

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This paper investigates the role of productivity as a determinant of the worker's retirement intentions. Using an overlapping generation framework, we analyze the retirement decision of a cohort of workers being ability heterogeneous. The labor market is endogenously segmented between workers having the required ability level to occupy jobs where the productivity is indexed to the technological state via on-the-job training (complex jobs) and the rest of workers, who are employed in positions where productivity is relatively deteriorated in case of technological change due to the absence of on-the-job training (simple jobs). In case of technological change, workers in complex jobs delay their retirement date, whereas workers in simple positions will not modify their retirement decision unless taxes change. Using data from France, we find that after a technological change, older workers who benefit from a skill upgrading training program have a higher intended retirement age. JEL: J14; J22; J24; J26

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“…Cheron, Langot, and Moreno-Galbis (2011) show that the diffusion of new technologies has fostered a gradual increase in the relative unemployment rate of medium skilled workers.…”

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Job polarization in aging economies

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Sopraseuth²

2014

Labour Economics

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This paper extends on French data a previous finding on US data: employment growth has been more important in the lower and upper tail of the job quality distribution. The originality of the paper is to argue that the diffusion of ICT cannot explain alone the polarization at the lower tail of the distribution. However, when combined with population aging, our framework predicts a progressive concentration of employment in the service sector (bottom tail of the job quality distribution). This results from a purely demand shift, since, as revealed by our estimations goods and services are complementary for seniors. The decrease in the relative price of goods induced by ICT diffusion is thus associated with an increased demand for services if the proportion of seniors is increasing.

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Labour Market Institutions and Technological Employment

Cited by 3 publications

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Embracing the sobering reality of technological influences on jobs, employment and human resource development

Embracing the sobering reality of technological influences on jobs, employment and human resource development

Retirement intentions in the presence of technological change: theory and evidence from France

Job polarization in aging economies

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